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- Back Roads is taking viewers to some of Australia's most interesting and resilient communities. The towns chosen for the programnme are full of colourful characters whose grit and good humour continues to uplift and inspire.
- This week Heather visits Harrow, a creative community that took to heart the mantra "reinvent or perish" and found unique ways to bring new people and fresh ideas into the town.
- Landline goes to Bass Strait and Australia's largest remaining scallop fishery. Also meet the scientist whose work in sheep helped in the births of 10 million IVF babies. Plus the old alcohol that's new again - mead.
- Shearer Joe Dodd wanted to perform a marathon shear, and he combined this with his commitment to charity work to create Shear For A Cure. On an unseasonally warm weekend in South Australia, shearer Joe Dodd set out to achieve a world first marathon shear, 34 hours on the boards. Joe's attempt has raised more than $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation.
- Researchers in the Top End this week unleashed one of the most devastating diseases affecting commercial banana production - all in the name of science. There have been a series of outbreaks of the soil-borne fungus Fusarium Wilt or panama disease in the Territory over the past five years, which have threatened the viability of the fledgling industry. Panama disease has no known cure or treatment. Not only does it lead to the destruction of banana plants, but it can contaminate soil and remain undetected for up to 30 years.
- Kingaroy, in Queensland is famous for two things - peanuts and former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. But for locals Kingaroy has another claim to fame - its dirt. It's red, it stains and it gets into everything. One young couple has decided to make money from the bane of Kingaroy farmers' wifes' existence.
- They may not be as well known as the man from Snowy River but the "cattlemen of the sea" who work Victoria's southern coast also deserve to be immortalised. For more than a century, they've moved cattle through the ocean at low tide in search of island pastures.
- We've come to rely on road transport delivering not just the food and fibre we produce but most of the freight that sustains families and farming communities right across the country as well. Now one small town's fifteen minutes of fame has also turned up on the back of a truck, a very long truck, as it turned out.
- Run your eye down the classifieds in our major rural newspapers and magazines prior to the mustering season and you'll find plenty of jobs for jackaroos and jillaroos. And right beside them are ads for an increasing number of entry-level cattle industry courses offered by rural colleges across the country. Some of the most popular are run at the Northern Territory University's Katherine campus which this year will turn about 500 "ring-ins" into top end ringers.
- Three months ago all hell broke loose in Australia's key scientific establishments. A virus believed to be fatal to wheat had been found in CSIRO glasshouses. Tens of thousands of plants were destroyed. The grains council claimed the virus could put a $200 million dent in the national grain income. But last month, the Agriculture Minister announced an about-face on the status of the virus, saying it was not such a problem after all. Mr Truss claimed the virus was probably endemic across much of the wheat belt, with no real impact. And farmers could go back to business as usual. What on earth happened in between?
- The life and times of duck producer Pepe Bonaccordo read like a movie script. From humble beginnings on a subsistence farm in his native Italy, he has become the biggest duck producer in Australia and New Zealand and predicts the Bonaccordo name will be around for generations to come.
- Kerry Lonergan spoke to olive grower and processor Mark Troy about issues facing the Australian olive industry, including the decision by Customs to drop their investigation into a request for countervailing tariffs on EU-subsidised olive oil.
- The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mark Vaile, explains why AWB, by law, is Australia's monopoly wheat exporter.
- The humble goat has an appetite that's almost as legendary as its toughness. So much so, that it's often blamed for turning marginal country into a desert. However after some tough seasons and a turnaround in export prices some canny land managers have let the goats loose on woody weeds.